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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1
Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
1765
2
Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
1474
3
We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
1470
4
The Grug Brained Developer
1068
5
I fucking hate Jira
971
6
Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
942
7
GitHub Copilot is generally available
863
8
Writing one sentence per line
849
9
Tailscale SSH
759
10
Goodbye Zachtronics
752

Top Ask HN

1
Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
417
2
What tone to use in code review suggestions?
302
3
How to level up your technical writing?
295
4
Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it
282
5
How to raise a seed round in a down market?
213
6
Why are Git submodules so bad?
213
7
Feel bad about working in crypto, what to do?
203
8
Has anyone made any serious money selling Android apps?
147
9
How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?
141
10
How does HN manage to be always online?
127

Top Show HN

1
Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines
370
2
Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
306
3
Nimwave – build TUIs for the terminal, web, and desktop
195
4
WarcDB: Web crawl data as SQLite databases
171
5
I built a fun video meeting app with 2D physics and proximity chat
166
6
Crocodile - Better code review for GitHub
144
7
Akedo – Retro gaming and coding platform
138
8
Data Diff – compare tables of any size across databases
127
9
Easily Convert WARC (Web Archive) into Parquet, Then Query with DuckDB
116
10
Unsubscan – Free and offline mailing list unsubscription tool
101

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • techcrunch.com
  • venturebeat.com
  • gizmodo.com
  • arstechnica.com
  • theverge.com
  • wired.com
  • vice.com
  • zdnet.com
  • engadget.com
  • technologyreview.com
  • cnet.com
  • vox.com
  • fastcompany.com
  • protocol.com
  • wired.co.uk
  • therecord.media
  • qz.com
  • techradar.com
  • techspot.com
  • pcgamer.com
  • thenextweb.com
  • restofworld.org
  • bleepingcomputer.com
1
The dissolution of Apple’s legacy design team
302
2
Pig heart transplant failed as its heart muscle cells died
208
3
The Magnetar, nature’s ultimate superweapon
179
4
Police linked to hacking campaign to frame Indian activists
165
5
Valve’s Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens
98
6
Netflix lays off 300 more people – almost 3% of its staff
91
7
Gopher: Underground Technology (2004)
71
8
Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers
68
9
Tesla sued by ex-employees who claim that mass layoffs violated federal law
67
10
SpaceX firings likely violate US labor law, experts say
64

News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nytimes.com
  • theguardian.com
  • edition.cnn.com
  • bloomberg.com
  • bbc.com
  • wsj.com
  • reuters.com
  • washingtonpost.com
  • cnbc.com
  • theatlantic.com
  • bbc.co.uk
  • theregister.com
  • npr.org
  • economist.com
  • ft.com
  • cnn.com
  • forbes.com
  • newyorker.com
  • apnews.com
  • axios.com
  • businessinsider.com
  • finance.yahoo.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • msn.com
  • thehill.com
  • independent.co.uk
  • nypost.com
  • dw.com
  • lite.cnn.com
  • slate.com
  • scmp.com
  • politico.com
  • latimes.com
  • nbcnews.com
  • fortune.com
  • news.yahoo.com
  • aljazeera.com
  • asia.nikkei.com
  • time.com
  • sfchronicle.com
  • abc.net.au
  • cbsnews.com
  • euronews.com
  • telegraph.co.uk
  • reason.com
  • cbc.ca
  • dailymail.co.uk
  • theintercept.com
  • sfgate.com
  • politico.eu
  • buzzfeednews.com
1
Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
1765
2
FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market
418
3
Dentistry is less scientific and more gratuitous than people think (2019)
366
4
Five planets are lining up in the sky in June and will peak tonight
285
5
As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
219
6
At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now
181
7
3M’s PFAS Crisis Has Come to Europe
180
8
Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (2015)
171
9
Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1M per apartment to build
158
10
Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care
145

Scientific publications [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • arxiv.org
  • phys.org
  • spectrum.ieee.org
  • space.com
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • pnas.org
  • nasa.gov
1
The mites in the skin of our faces
145
2
Unexpected solar weather is accelerating satellites' orbital decay
128
3
Modern phoenix: The bird brought back from extinction in Japan
65
4
The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens
33
5
Evolution Through Large Models
32
6
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn alignment peaks today
10
7
CERN will end cooperation with Russia in 2024 – Space
7
8
Neuronlike Memristors Could Superspeed 6G Wireless
7
9
Rock: Causal Inference Principles for Reasoning about Commonsense Causality
7
10
What does it take to solve the measurement problem?
5

Dev Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • phoronix.com
  • lwn.net
  • thenewstack.io
  • hackernoon.com
  • blog.twitter.com
  • blog.mozilla.org
  • openai.com
  • engineering.fb.com
  • stripe.com
  • krebsonsecurity.com
  • coindesk.com
  • blog.google
  • brendangregg.com
  • threatpost.com
  • stackoverflow.blog
  • github.blog
  • infoq.com
  • portswigger.net
  • betterprogramming.pub
  • ai.googleblog.com
  • blog.cloudflare.com
  • devblogs.microsoft.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • schneier.com
  • nextplatform.com
  • developer.apple.com
1
GitHub Copilot is generally available
863
2
Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
703
3
Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
455
4
Introducing PyScript (summary of PyCon keynote)
402
5
Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20
392
6
On the dangers of cryptocurrencies and the uselessness of blockchain
182
7
NFS: The Early Years
176
8
Early Access to Chrome OS Flex: The Upgrade PCs and Macs
127
9
Bitcoin Falls Below $20k
90
10
Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power
89

Tech blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • macrumors.com
  • 9to5mac.com
  • tomshardware.com
  • hackaday.com
  • anandtech.com
  • newatlas.com
  • appleinsider.com
  • eff.org
1
Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
466
2
The fragmented nature of modern-day railways
139
3
Court Rules DMCA Doesn't Override First Amendment’s Anonymous Speech Protections
43
4
Fusion tech is set to unlock near-limitless ultra-deep geothermal energy
14
5
Apple Silicon Likely to Benefit as TSMC Aims to Launch 2nm Chips by 2025
8
6
Notkia: Building an Open and Linux-Powered Numpad Phone
7
7
Daycare Apps Are Dangerously Insecure
7
8
EFF's Statement on Dobb's Abortion Ruling
6
9
Our Digital Lives Rest on a Robust, Flexible, and Stable Fair Use Regime
6
10
iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites
6

FAANG+ [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • aws.amazon.com
  • amazon.com
  • microsoft.com
  • apple.com
1
Copilot just got company: Amazon announced Codewhisperer
73
2
Amazon Whisperer, ML Coding Companion
11
3
AWS Announces Copilot Competitor
9
4
Pro Go:The Complete Guide to Programming Reliable and Efficient Software with Go
2
5
Improving AI-based defenses to disrupt human-operated ransomware
2
6
Horizontally scale SageMaker ML Models monitoring
2
7
Internet Explorer – End of Life
1
8
Amazon Code Whisperer
1
9
Book: Ocean Station: Operations of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1940-1977
1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • thedrive.com
  • atlasobscura.com
  • electrek.co
  • aeon.co
  • lesswrong.com
  • hbr.org
  • torrentfreak.com
  • nationalgeographic.com
  • docs.google.com
  • web.archive.org
  • stratechery.com
  • archive.org
1
How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices
417
2
Small actions make great leaders
156
3
For natural theologians, proving God was beside the point
59
4
C Xor C++ Programming
44
5
Lichess.org Breakdown of Costs
37
6
The Birth of Visual Basic (2006)
35
7
Tesla launches virtual powerplant that pays Powerwall owners to end brownouts
30
8
Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters
28
9
Why Is Wine (Almost) Always Made from Grapes?
28
10
Connected-Up-Brains
16

Science News [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • nature.com
  • livescience.com
  • techxplore.com
  • interestingengineering.com
  • science.org
  • medicalxpress.com
  • quantamagazine.org
  • scientificamerican.com
  • theconversation.com
  • nautil.us
  • sciencealert.com
  • smithsonianmag.com
  • news.mit.edu
  • sciencedaily.com
  • sciencedirect.com
  • scitechdaily.com
  • newscientist.com
  • sciencemag.org
  • eurekalert.org
  • bmj.com
1
Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children
319
2
The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses
312
3
One centimeter long bacterium discovered
243
4
Rare ‘triple’ La Niña climate event looks likely
184
5
U.S. plans trial of early detection blood tests for multiple cancers
156
6
Cancer cells wake up when people sleep
145
7
An Early Run-In with Censors Led Rod Serling to ‘The Twilight Zone’
114
8
We regret to inform you that your choice of Deathday is no longer available
95
9
New proof shows when structure must emerge in graphs
75
10
Electrocuted birds are sparking wildfires
73

Social [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • old.reddit.com
  • reddit.com
  • twitter.com
  • facebook.com
  • linkedin.com
  • youtube.com
1
Copilot sells code other people wrote
713
2
Twitter Notes
435
3
Solend seized $170M of user funds
283
4
“True” Damascus steel is not a “lost art”
198
5
LMN 3, an open source DAW in a box [video]
195
6
AI Wrote and Performed a Jerry Seinfeld Routine [video]
176
7
Will word processors start a home working revolution? (1979) [video]
166
8
Why do we all fall for AI-generated language?
116
9
I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday
95
10
Why former Amazon engineers hate the company with a passion?
93

Github repos and gists [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • github.com
  • gist.github.com
1
YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters
736
2
Cold Showers
629
3
Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules and filters
494
4
Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively
454
5
Dolt is Git for Data
334
6
ffsend: A fully featured Firefox Send command line client
281
7
Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
264
8
Silero V3: fast high-quality text-to-speech in 20 languages with 173 voices
256
9
Permissive forwarding rule leads to unintentional exposure of containers (2021)
234
10
Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running Kubernetes
225

Wikipedia [?]

Posts matching the following domain: wikipedia.org

1
Stolperstein
445
2
Katapayadi System
156
3
Motorola 6800
115
4
Detention of Mark Bernstein
112
5
Bullshit Jobs
86
6
HAL/S Syntax
38
7
Competent Man
12
8
Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome
11
9
Link 16
11
10
Fred Dibnah
10

Blogs [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • medium.com
  • world.hey.com
  • danluu.com
  • jvns.ca
  • paulgraham.com
1
Speeding up this site by 50x (2014)
180
2
Bitcoin Is a Hideous Monstrosity Made Out of Computers and Greed
108
3
Is Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot the Future? (2020)
75
4
I’ve Had Enough of Teaching
16
5
Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2022
16
6
Grifters Tried to Pass Off My Free Custom Email Service as Their Own NFT Project
13
7
Why Do Apple and Microsoft Hate Checkboxes?
12
8
4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump (2017)
6
9
Full UEFI secure boot on Fedora using signed initrd and systemd-boot
5
10
“hi18n”, a TypeScript-first internationalization library — getting started guide
5

Stackoverflow [?]

Posts from the following websites:

  • stackoverflow.com
1
Node.js maxing out at 1000 concurrent connections
2
2
The Use Case of the WHATTHEFOXSAY Google Docs Easter Egg
2
3
StackOverflow Collectives: Communities for your favorite technologies
1

Substack [?]

Posts matching the following domain: substack.com

1
Terminated
387
2
Advice for academic refugees
144
3
Hot or Not?
96
4
Designing Billions of Circuits with Code
93
5
Fail Gardening: Low Expectations for Skillbuilding and Eventual Success
62
6
Is Web3 culture similar to Amway (MLM) culture?
55
7
Why Most Strategies Lack Clarity
43
8
Misplaced Crypto Schadenfreude
25
9
James Joyce almost became a famous singer (2021)
16
10
Book Review: San Fransicko
14